{"id":377382,"date":"2024-08-06T13:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/377382\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:16:28","slug":"377382","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/377382\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to determine average residence time of fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Look up &#8220;plug flow residence time&#8221;, or go ask a Chemical Engineer. Then compare that to the 0.04s you&#8217;ve modelled.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the model, you can use pathlines to get an idea of flow residence time, species tracer (like in the experiments) or a scalar method commonly referred to as &#8220;mean age of air&#8221;. The latter isn&#8217;t covered the documentation, but should be explained in Solutions either on here (I think it&#8217;s public) or on the Customer Portal (your Prof should have access).&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-377382","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/377382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/377382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}